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- "Drengen spiser mandens ost."
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...Is this such a common occurrence in Denmark that i need to know how to say this?
It is incredibly common. Every alleyway has that one man who is willing to share his 'special' cheese
this sentence is almost as bad as the one about drinking the man's juice......
This has to be the same man that keeps bears! What will he do next!!! So wrong lol
why "The boy eats the cheese of the man" is not correct? (i'm not native english speaker, but it makes sense in my brain....:) )
You would be more likely to see phrasing like that in literature, like "The man eats the fruit of the tree". However in normal day to day speech no one would say it that way. Unless they wanted to sound pretentious haha.
I guess it's correct, but it's just so far from the original phrase that it's not accepted. Also, that's awkward, clunky English.
Native English speaker (with a degree in linguistics) here. That isn't the way it would normally be said, but it is not ungrammatical and means mostly the same thing. It would really depend on context. And a lot of especially English speaking people tend to think genitive = possessive, because English doesn't have case marking except for the possessive 's.
Oh, you've gotta love Duolingo. Someone had fun with the phrases in this lesson.
You done ❤❤❤❤❤❤ up Duolingo It's ling time now. You know I'm going down on that cheese!
i have a problem with my own computer's sound system and i have seen this question for 20 times...
The boy is eating the man's cheese is wrong ffs. I don't quite understand when the verb is eat/ is eating. P.S. Dirty bas-tad.
Sounds more like "brighten" than Drengen, that was a hard one to decypher to my ears aha.
